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each with six horses, containing 

 the officers of the household, and 

 distinguished foreigners. Parties 

 of the same guards followed each 

 carriage. Then came the state 

 carriages of the Prince of Orange 

 (whose servants wore the Stadt- 

 holder's liveries of blue and gold), 

 the Dukes of Gloucester, Cam- 

 bridge, Sussex, Clarence,andKent, 

 in each of which was one of the 

 foreign visitors. A groom walked 

 at each horses head, and three 

 footmen, in state liveries, stood 

 behind each carriage. The Duke 

 of York's carriage was drawn by 

 six greys. The two sons of his 

 Prussian Majesty rode with his 

 Royal Highness. All the horses 

 were decked with crimson rib- 

 bands. The equipage of the Re- 

 gent was in the highest degree 

 superb. The Royal carriage was 

 drawn by eight of the King's 

 cream-coloured horses, ornamented 

 with azure ribbands : four foot- 

 men, almost covered with gold 

 lace, stood behind. It was pre- 

 ceded by 12 of the Knights 

 Marshalmen, in full uniform ; the 

 Royal Heralds, wearing their offi- 

 cial tabbards, &c, ; and a nume- 

 rous party of the King's Yeomen 

 of the Guard, and of the 10th, or 

 Prince's Light Dragoons. The 

 procession was closed by the re- 

 mainder of the Horse Guards, with 

 their trumpeters, &c. in full dress ; 

 after which came a vast number of 

 other carriages, containing fo- 

 reigners of distinction, the Mar- 

 quis Wellesley, Lord and Lady 

 Castlereagh, Prince de Wagstadt 

 (Blucher,) Count Platoff, Lords 

 Hill and Deresford, and a long list 

 of persons of distinction. 



The Lord Mayor and the She- 

 riffs in their state carriage'^, and 



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the Aldermen and City-officers, 

 had stationed themselves east of 

 Temple-bar,previously totheanival 

 of the process^ion ; on the approacii 

 of which, they alighted, and 

 mounted chargers decorated with 

 crimson, belonging to the officers 

 of the Horse Guards. The first 

 part of the cavalcade having ad- 

 vanced, the Prince Regent's car- 

 riage drew up, and the Lord Mayor, 

 Aldermen, and Sheriffs, received 

 his Royal Highness with the usual 

 ceremony. After a short confe- 

 rence, the City-officers took the 

 lead of the procession, which 

 moved in the following order ; 

 A troop of the 10th light dragoons, 

 trumpeters and kettle drums ; the 

 Lord Mayor's state coach, in which 

 was his lordship's chaplain alone ; 

 the carriages of the Aldermen, 

 empty ; a party of military : the 

 Knights Marshalmen : the City 

 Marshalmen, two and two ; twenty 

 of the Aldermen, two and two on 

 horseback, and dressed in their 

 state robes ; two Horse-guards ; 

 the Town Crier, bearing the mace ; 

 the Lord Mayor in his state robes, 

 mounted on a beautiful charger, 

 uncovered, and bearing the sword 

 of state ; the state carriage of the 

 PrinceTiegent, in which were hi» 

 Royal Highness and the King of 

 Prussia, followed by a detachment 

 of cavalry, after which came the 

 carriages of several of his Majesty's 

 Ministers. His Royal Highness 

 reached Guildhall about half-past 

 five o'clock, where he was re- 

 ceived by the Lord Mayor, and 

 conducted through a line formed 

 by the Aldermen and Common 

 Council-men, to the Drawing- 

 room, (the Common Council 

 Chamber), where his Royal High- 

 ness remained in conversation with 

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